2010 Ecumenical Journey

The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the LWF, leads a delegation of ELCA clergy and lay leaders to visit world church leaders in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva, February 3–17, 2010.

The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, ELCA presiding bishop and president of the LWF, leads a delegation of ELCA clergy and lay leaders to visit world church leaders in London, Istanbul, Rome and Geneva, February 3–17, 2010.

Bishop Jana Jeruma-Grinberga, left, Lutheran Church in Great Britain, visits with Ione Hanson, center, wife of ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson and the Rev. Susan Langhauser, Olathe, Kan., member of the ELCA Church Council.

Members of the 2010 ELCA Ecumenical Journey delegation met Feb. 4 with leaders of the Anglican Consultative Council in London. Speaking is Dr. Rocky Piro, Seattle, president of the Lutheran Ecumenical Representatives Network.

Three members of the ELCA Church Council are part of the 2010 Ecumenical Journey: From left, Deborah Chenoweth, Hood River, Ore.; the Rev. Steven Loy, Las Cruces, N.M.; and the Rev. Susan Langhauser, Olathe, Kan.

Pastor Donald McCoid, executive, ELCA Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations, left, speaks with Dr. Martin Davie, The Church of England, during the ELCA delegation's Feb. 5 meeting in London with Church of England officials.

The Rev. Dr. Leslie Nathaniel, left, European secretary and deputy secretary for ecumenical affairs, and the Rev. Dr. Paul Avis, general secretary, Council for Christian Unity, both with The Church of England, met with the ELCA delegation in London Feb. 5.

Hosting the ELCA delegation during its visit to Halki Island, Turkey, Feb. 7, was Metropolitan Apostolos of Mosholmisia, second from right. With him, are, from left, Ione Hanson, ELCA President Bishop and LWF President mark Hanson and The Rev. Donald McCoid, executive, ELCA Ecumenical and Inter-Religious Relations.

The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, left, hosted a farewell luncheon for the ELCA delegation Feb. 9 in Istanbul. With him is the Rev. Susan Langhauser, Olathe, Kan., a member of the ELCA Church Council and the delegation.